# Imgur

A semi-anonymous image upload site popularly used by [Reddit](reddit.md) users. It allows hotlinking to images, and has a commenting functionality that might even make it a kind of simple social network. Its heavy interface, coupled with the fact that it won't load without Javascript is a turnoff. Plus, tracking is loaded with the scripts; another no-no.

## Rimgo

Rimgo is a lightweight, javascriptless frontend to Imgur. To use it, simply redirect whatever URL fragments from Imgur to the end of your instance's URL. Example:

    https://imgur.com/5Xht1Vk -> https://rimgo.totaldarkness.net/5Xht1Vk

Picture, gallery and comments are loaded. It works for hotlinking (`https://rimgo.totaldarkness.net/5Xht1Vk.jpg`) and even with "explore" pages (ex: `https://rimgo.totaldarkness.net/t/hacker`).

The only drawback is that since Rimgo re-routes *everything* on the page through itself (thus protecting your privacy from Imgur's tracking), some stuff may be pretty slow to load - particularly animated gifs. I guess this is an acceptable drawback, though, since everything else is so light and fast.

 - [Project repository with instance list](https://codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo)

## Alternatives

Although no browserless viewer that I know of exists, it's worth mentioning [Lutim](https://framagit.org/fiat-tux/hat-softwares/lutim), a FOSS image uploading system that you can self-host to get away from closed, proprietary data silos. Sadly, there is not an instance list on the project, but you could try [this one](https://lutim.lagout.org/).
